in the holocaust in 2009. we're almost a full workweek into metro's safetrack program. there hasn't been any major incidents on the rail, but more of you are driving to work and would he seeing the effect on traffic. a lot of us told us yesterday's commute was the worst so far this week. until next thursday, trains are single tracking between east falls church and ballston. orange line trains are operating every 18 minutes. metro is considering bus service that would consider national harbor and alexandria. the route would rate from the huntington and kenk street metro stations to the oxon hill park and ride and mgm casino and national harbor. buses would run 7 days a week. if approved, the pilot ram would begin in october. i'm molette green at the live desk. right now flames coming dangerously close to home,

take a look at those images. this wildfire known as tender foot consumed 700 acres and at least 3 buildings so far. last night some 300 people evacuated in a town northwest of phoenix. cooler temps and higher humidity could help in this firefight. no injuries so far. the cause still under investigation in this massive blaze comes three year to the month that 19 elite firefighters died in 2013. back to you. it's 4:31. time for weather and traffic on the 1s. and some really, really nice june weather right now p. >> 4 things to know from chuck bell. >> this is about as night as it can be around here. 4:31 on a thursday morning, a little june chim in the aichille air, but almost as nice as sweating in january. winds gusted to near 50 miles per hour yesterday afternoon. today those winds will be in the 20 to

gusts. flawless weather today and tomorrow. still some indications, though, we may be able to touch 90 for the first time this year either saturday or a little bit more likely on sunday. but hard to believe there may be a 90 in the forecast because it is chilly. 48 in college park and manassas, 49 in ft. belvoir. so definitely need a little wrap early this morning. if you're headed out the door, temperatures near 50 now, we'll be fear 70 by noontime and afternoon highs mid to upper 70s, some spots might make it to 80. school day forecast in ten minutes. good morning, jack taylor, how are things at wtop? >> so far quiet. we'll take is it while we can. green, green, green that the hour of the morning. i'm sure complications will a rise later. for now we're in good shape on start things off.arise later. for now we're in good shape on start things off. north up past

zone. slow traffic rolling up toward lore top 12e68 where ton itself. it's the only delay in virginia right now 95 north headed in to springfield. back into you. breaking news out of prince george's county. police right now are on the scene of a homicide investigation, this going on in upper marlboro in the 700 block of castlewood place. police tweeted out some information saying they went to this area about 12:40 this morning for a welfare check and they found a man outside suffering some trauma to the body. the man was pronounced dead on the scene. police say this does not appear to be random. we'll stay on top of the developments throughout the morning. back to you. it's 4:33 thousand. and a family is torn by tragedy this morning after police say this father

and his son-in-law in annandale. police charged 67 idea hiep van le with murder. at the say he shout his daughter see fee and dang ngo at their home. there were children inside thom. >> i heard a bang. i didn't know what it was. i thought maybe a car backfiring. >> police say the suspect about and victim lived in the home together. it was an emotional graduation at walt whitman high school as the sister of a teen killed in a car crash accepted his honorary high school diploma. >> a certificate from the governor's office identifying tommy as having been in the top 5% of his senior class. >> the entire auditorium erupted in to applause as helena

brother. thomas and her parents were killed in a february car crash not far from the school. she was the only survivor. community members are pushing for changes that the bethesda intersection p. turn to go the latest in the race for the white house, bernie sanders will turn to washington today for a meeting with president obama. this comes a democratic leaders are trying to unite the party after hillary clinton clinched the party's nomination earlier this week. aides say the president will congratulate sanders on the campaign he's run and the issues he's brought to the race. sanders will also meet with harry reid later today. this evening sanders will rally supporters in washington ahead of next week's primary. tickets are not required. the campaign says sanders will hit on several issues including making college tuition free and combatting climate change. and coming up, tracie potts will kick deeper intoer

how democratic leaders could help unify the party. she will also talk about donald trump and the backlash he's getting from republicans on capitol hill. happening today, an area group holds a fundraiser to continue search efforts for the pissing children. sarah and jacob were last seen in 2014 with their mother, katherine. she remains in a mental sthugs charged with theneglect and abd. their father remains hopeful that they will be found. the fundraiser starts at 2:00 p.m. at the lagarde in northwest d.c. today tens of thousands are expected to attack an islamic funeral prayer service for muhammad ali. it's being held at louisville's freedom hall starting at noon. his funeral procession and public memorial service will take place tomorrow. the three time heavyweight champion died on friday at the age of 74. coming up at 5:00, we'll have a live report from louisville. fairfax county police are

63-year-old byron jeffrey harris walked away while he was with his family in the tysons area yesterday. police believe he may have hop order a metro train or bus. they say harris suffers from a brain injury. if you have any information, call fairfax county police. relief may be on the way to reducing long lines at airport security check points. the iteam has learned house homeland security subcommittee plans to release a new bill that would increase tsa funding by $163 million next year. last month a senate committee unanimously approved a bill boosting tsa funding by homore than $200 million. some of that will be used to hire can tishl officers. have you ever wanted a piece of white house history? you can walk away with some memorabilia about if you are the highest bidder today. items belonging to former white house usher rex scoutton are up for auction. he served it ten presid

harry truman to bill clinton. it includes special pictures and signed gifts from former presidents. >> we have a photo of circumstance first ladies and five presidents all on one page. you don't often see that. here is a note card of jfk from jacqueline kennedy. >> the auction gets under way at 6:00 tonight at twins august galleries in falls church. you can bid in person, online or by phone. scout t scoutton died three years ago. >> pretty cool stuff. well, it could be a game changer when it comes to women's cancers. clinic aimed at put position an end to a serb gene mutation. . and what leaders and parents are trying to figure out when it comes to transgender school policy. and looking live outside where a lot of you are waking up in the 50s. the kids may want a hoodie or jacket on th w

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breaking news out of iraq. getting details now on two deadly bombings. we just learned a suicide car bomber killed 12 people at a military check-point. this happened north of back dad. another explosion took the lives

actually that number updated to 15 killed. working to getting video. back to you. want to get a look at your weather and traffic right now as you think about what you will wear outside this morning. >> chuck bell says you might need a little cardigan or something that you will shed later in the day. >> you may. depends on how cold tolerant you are. it's a chilly start for many, but a nice looking way here is the front lawn here at channel 4. bus stop temperatures will be in the low to mid-50s. so that is a little cool perhaps a little jacket. but you get "a" weather for recess. a little on the breezy side, but not windy like yesterday. afternoon highs by dismissal time up to about 78. so no more than maybe a little sweat shirt or jacket outside early this morning. but shorts and t-shirts on order for later on

days with rain chances and hotter weather coming our way in time for the weekend now your check with the number one source wtop's jack taylor. good morning. another fun morning on metro. single tracking between east falls church and ballston again. rock creek parkway, the work zone in place until 3w6:00. sounds like a new problem be leaving howard county on i-70, west as you approach mt. airy, sounds like a vehicle went off the roadway. equipment headed to the scene. back into you. it's a first for prince george's county. one man convicted literally because of the blink of an eye. and they're both their party's presumptive no

so what the roast looks good dad. how good? 162 likes. did i get any retweets on those green beans? yep! and they're blowing up on instagram. honey, your rump roast just broke the internet!!!! as it should. life is family mealtime and everything you need to make it picture perfect. now be sure to tag your mother because she needs more followers. ok.

the roast looks good dad. how good? 162 likes. did i get any retweets on those green beans?

yep! and they're blowing up on instagram. honey, your rump roast just broke the internet!!!! as it should. life is family mealtime and everything you need now be sure to tag your mother because she needs more followers. ok. welcome back. let's get back into decision 2016. tracie potts is live on capitol hill for us. let's talk about this meeting between president obama and bernie sanders today. this is the first step maybe, democratic leaders trying to tell sanders that he should bow out of the race? >> reporter: some are seeing this as a gentle nudge to get him to move aside and pull all of his millions supporters over to support hillary clinton. you also have to remember that this is a meeting that he asked for, so he's not being hauled in after losing to talk to president obama. the president says and you will hear more of

show, he wants to listen to what bernie sanders and his support ertz want and what it sound like what they want at this point is a greater in some of the issues that will come up in the fall campaign. and this has been a pretty heated campaign. and there is some question over whether bernie sanders supporters are will then give that same support to hillary clinton. so how will they try to win over the bernie sanders folks? >> reporter: polls have shown that the majority of sanders supporters will support clinton, but there is a significant number up to a third depending on the poll that you look at who have said in the past that they will not support clinton. but things have changed. this was when bernie sanders had a real taste at that nomination. now that it does not look mathematically possible, the choices are clinton and trump. trump has said that he's willing to try to go after the sanders supporters, but they are very keen again on issues. social justice, cracking down on wall street, will they think that hillary clinton or donald trump would

>> okay. let's turn our attention to donald trump. he's getting a lot of criticism over the last several days from republicans on capitol hill over the comments about the judge in the trump university case. one senator even withdrew his support of trump. does this help or hurt him in the long run? >> reporter: it could hurt him, but here are the two things that we're he hearing from a lot of republicans. number one, they want donald trump to apologize. number two, they want donald trump to stay on script, figuratively and literally in terms of staying on script with issues and dealing with issues and staying on script literally by using a teleprompter and not going off script at events. so we'll see if his team is able to convince him to that. but that's what we're hearing from a lot of republicans right now who want to support their party's nominee, but being reluctant to do so. >> interesting to see what donald trump does next. tracie potts live on capitol hill for us. thank you. and ahead of next week's primaries here in washington, a report by the d.c. audi

errors including dead people on the city's voter registration rolls. the auditor says even properly registered voters have addresses or other errors. >> the implication, a lot of folks who are deceased and should be removed from the rolls. one of our concerns is the scrubbing the voter rolls. >> the elections office says there is a new three member board which takes the audit seriously but is business swi tuesday's voting. once they are done with the primary next week, they will submit a response to the audit. 4:49 thousand. an investigation into two shootings in culpeper continues this morning. investigators stay all started with willis walker jr. threatened his wife at gunpoint tuesday night. she ran to a neighbor's home, but walker followed her and shot and killed the 74-year-old man who tried to defend her. we're told walker then threatened first responders and was shot and killed by a deputy. and

county deputy shot several times tuesday night is expected to make a actual recovery. he had a successful surgery yesterday. deputies say he was shot four times by 18-year-old joshua sumpter. he now faces an attempted capital murder charge. heartwrenching video evidence helped to convict a man of murder in prince george's county p you can see the suspect photo trying to identify the person who shot him leaving him paralyzed. he matt identification back in 2010. he died two years later. took years to even get the evidence allowed in court. will helped jurors make their decision. >> so it wasn't the involuntary blink that we all do. it was truly a closing ofly eyes and opening them and you could see tears coming from the side of his eyes as he identified the killer. ge

sentenced in august. a big win for the prosecution in the trial of a man accused of attacking a mclean virginia couple. the judge ruled the defense cannot argue that andrew schmuhl was suffering from medication induced delirium when he tasered, stabbed and shot a man and his wife. prosecutors say schmuhl and his wife 34r57bed tplanned the atta she was fired from the law firm. today some new policies on how to treat transgender students in schools. the fairfax county school board is meeting tonight and several speakers are addressing the board to support and inclusive policy. they are asking for fair and dignified regulations about bathroom access and staff training. metro wants to make sure no one can shut off a metrobus so now it plans to install locks on the buses emergency shutoff switches. last summer someone pulled the switch and shot a man on a

metrobus. the drivers ha could for the use radio to communication. >> it used to happen all the time. i don't understand why they have that on the outside of the bus so out in the open where anybody could just come and pull that. it's crazy. >> that emergency switch was put in place so first responders could turn off a bus if there was an emergency. a huge episode of "the tonight show" will air tonight. jimmy fallon's special guests will be president obama and madonna. quite a lineup. >> is bernie going to endorse hillary? >> well, i'm sure they will have a conversation. >> is he ever going to drop out? >> jimmy asking the tough questions. who knows. you can watch "the tonight show" tonight right after news 4 at 11:00. we turn to chuck bell this morning at 4:52. >> just like that. >>

like uma/oprah. >> that's right. >> who? >> uma thurman. and oprah winfrey. >> gotcha. >> i managed to bring this show to a complete stop. are you enjoying coolness? >> this is so lovely. i'll even take the breeze because it was such a nice day. >> aaron some. >> hey, summer freeze makes me feel fine. >> you know -- >> if you would just sing it. >> you could see the wheels turning in his head. he was working on something and i didn't want him to have to hold it for the next 30 minutes. outside a good looking day. already a little early morning color in the sky. these are the longest days of the year. 14 hours and 50 minutes of daylight today. a nice little summer chill in the air. we'll enjoy far less wind than yesterday. today just a nice summer breeze. near perfect. our average high

haven't baeb been to 90 yet. 2014 and '15, we had the first 90 degree day back in the middle parts of may. so we've had three bonus weeks. get the car washed? absolutely right. next chance for a shower is saturday, but even that is not a washout. rain chances on saturday so far still stand at only about 30%. so you can get that car washed and keep it sceclean for a whil. 48 this martinsburg. 56 now in downtown. by later this afternoon, sunny, breezy and mild. afternoon temperatures mid to upper 70s, near perfect day to be outside. good weather for outside dining this evening, as well. temperatures dropping from near 70 at 6:00 back into the low 60s by 8:00, 9:00 tonight. so the "7-day forecast" then, 78 today, 80 tomorrow. by the weekend, warmer and more humid so saturday. sunday might be the first 90

we'll keep a close track on that. let's go over to jack taylor at wtop for a check on traffic. good morning p. in manassas north on 28, some sort of an issue. callers here say nothing is moving on 28 northbound after manassas drive. not sure if it's an accident or police activity. we'll try to get you more information. but 28 north up after manassas drive so far nothing moving. also in virginia, just about to wrap up the work zone on 95 northbound after lorton. crews have been there blocking two right lanes. last of the barrels being picked up. it will take a good 15 minutes or so before we truly get in to the morning's rush hour. so orange and silver line, everybody trying to avoid single tracking. you may find again high traffic patterns. back into you. chuck taylor in for melissa. thank you. today the first day back for students in maryland after three

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closeness, very tight friendship group, they're friends with every. >> today students at clarksburg high school return to class with heavy hearts. three of their classmates died in a bad crash tuesday night. parents say the friends were coming home from a pre-xre pre-graduation party. alcohol does not appear to be a factor. police say the driver, jacob, was going too fast down the country road. his pickup truck left the road and slammed into a tree. they all died. green's father says police son was on the right track. >> this happened too soon. for me, the other families, that this happened to, you know, my heart goes out and right now just time for us to come together and be here for each other. >> police say jacob had just go

all three students were juniors at clarksburg high. today a brand new law is taking affect, the right to die is now legal in california. the new law allows terminally ill patients to end their own lives. there are several guidelines. first patients have to have a terminal illness with six months left the to live, two different doctors have to diagnose them and patients must submit three separate requests for life ending drugs, two verbals and one in writing. d.c. statehood could be part of the conversation at the national democratic convention. mayor muriel bowser wants it to be part of the party's platform. the mayor says citizens of the nation's capital have been treated differently for long enough. the democratic national convention meets in philadelphia beginning july 25. some big news about cancer and that genetic muon